The move comes amid hope of large-scale investment from Seoul into Siberia.
Scheme would allow epic journeys from London to the Japanese capital with major international crossing between Sakhalin and Hokkaido.
Beads made from ostrich eggs buried in the Siberian cave around 2,000 generations ago reveal amazing artistic (and drilling) skills of our long-ago ancestors.
Move can boost tourism as free port and pacific capital Vladivostok opens up.
Famous as a place of exile in Tsarist and Soviet times, it could now gets its first international class hotel.
As it arrives, cosmodrome is hit by claims it is victim of 'fraud of the century'.
Trans Siberian Art Festival in Novosibirsk closed without Gergiev who was stuck in New York.